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Why? For all we know, might not be that difficult to implement after all. Why make things easy for WD and give them a ready-made excuse that "this is too difficult and so we won't do it"?

IMO it's high time they at least had the damn courtesy to tell their users, who believed in their 1st Gen. product and shelled out good money for it, whether or not they're ever going to release any new FW for it at all. People have asked this umpteen times on the official forum, and all they've got in response has been a stony silence. If this box has reached the end of its support lifecycle, don't we deserve to know, rather than be kept in the dark hoping against hope for a FW that'll never come? After all, if Microsoft can state clearly that XP's primary support phase is over and that extended support will also end around 2014, why the heck can't WD do something similar? Or are their development schedules so damn mixed up that even they don't know if and when another FW release will ever take place this century? (Actually, I am quite inclined to believe that this is indeed the case considering how well their previous FW releases have gone for the Live etc.)

Why? For all we know, might not be that difficult to implement after all. Why make things easy for WD and give them a ready-made excuse that "this is too difficult and so we won't do it"?

IMO it's high time they at least had the damn courtesy to tell their users, who believed in their 1st Gen. product and shelled out good money for it, whether or not they're ever going to release any new FW for it at all. People have asked this umpteen times on the official forum, and all they've got in response has been a stony silence. If this box has reached the end of its support lifecycle, don't we deserve to know, rather than be kept in the dark hoping against hope for a FW that'll never come? After all, if Microsoft can state clearly that XP's primary support phase is over and that extended support will also end around 2014, why the heck can't WD do something similar? Or are their development schedules so damn mixed up that even they don't know if and when another FW release will ever take place this century? (Actually, I am quite inclined to believe that this is indeed the case considering how well their previous FW releases have gone for the Live etc.)

Sorry matey, I wasn't really aware of the situation, I'll tread more carefully in future!

Still, I would say your assumption is mostly correct. Personally, I would be really happy if they did continue to support the 1st Gen. player instead of abandoning it, but seems like we're not going to see any more FW updates for it. I mean, if ever there was a chance of it, why can't WD simply say that yes, we will release something, but cannot say when. At least then we can wait. What's extremely frustrating is that they don't even have the basic decency to confirm whether there will be any more FW updates or not. So their silence makes me believe the answer is in the negative. If anyone else has info. to refute my assumption, kindly post here.

If you want to try posting re. this issue in the official forum swiss2008, feel free to do so (and let us know the link to your post too). Who knows? A miracle might happen and WD might actually respond to your post for some unknown reason. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) BTW, check out what others have posted on the official forum re. this issue, such as for example this thread. Then maybe you'll understand why all 1st Gen. owners are mostly pi**ed off with WD.

P.S. Seems even b-rad's out of ideas re. WDLXTV, since he too is now focussing only on developing WDLXTV-Live and WDLXTV-G2. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)